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by pg314 10y ago
> what really limits the welfare of your average consumer is the production capacity of the economy A counterpoint: some 795 million people in the world do not have enough food to lead a healthy active life. That's about one in nine
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It gets even worse when you see how those billions of dollars are then used. One of the founders of Renaissance is Robert Mercer [1]. He invested millions in the Heritage Foundation, Breitbart and Trump's campaign. [1] https:/&#x
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There's a historic reason: curl was started in 1997. At that time it made perfect sense to use C.
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It seems to me that during this election the right got tangled up in many more fake news stories than the left. One factor is probably that the majority of newspapers (both left and right leaning) endorsed Hillary. If you wanted news that c
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Having a multitude of sources and letting people choose as a solution presupposes that people have the time and the inclination to fact-check and are capable of evaluating news and sources critically. If I see how much time it takes to care
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Is this the NYT article you are referring to? http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/opinion/jeff-sessions-othe... That is an opinion piece. A lot of people seem to be conflating opinion pieces and reporting.
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This seems like a conspiracy theory to me. He was interviewed by the Swedish prosecutor on november 14: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/14/julian-assange... Say there is some vast conspiracy i
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They sometimes do work, because of the placebo effect.
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The collection of closing parentheses at the end is considered good style for all of the Lisp languages I'm familiar with (Scheme, Common Lisp, Elisp). Here's an example of the style in a file from the SBCL implementation of Commo
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This is an opinion piece. There is a difference between opinion pieces and reporting, a distinction that lots of people seem to be missing recently. You shouldn't revile a newspaper's reporting based on its opinion pieces.
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> But then we won't so then they'll just accept money from anyone with an agenda. That is an extraordinary claim to make. Do you have any evidence to back that up?
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> For example, they didn't report on leaking questions to debate organizers until Donna Brazile got fired. I imagine this is the email you're referring to: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/
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I'm sure there was some back and forth between the media and both campaigns. That's what reporters do, they cultivate their sources. A lot of the allegations in the article seem pretty weak. E.g., the campaign 'planted'
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I don't use social media either, but that doesn't change the fact that a majority of the other voters do. They will not all of a sudden stop using Facebook.
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The feedback loop is much tighter now. The more outrageous a story is, the more people click it, and the more money that story makes. You can immediately measure the effect (the Macedonian teenagers quickly zoomed in to the more gullible Tr
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Sometimes the validity of an opinion can be refuted by logic (e.g. if it is internally inconsistent), science (e.g. if it can be experimentally refuted) or morality (e.g. if it violates basic human rights).
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It is certainly an interesting idea, and I don't want to discourage you, but how would you reach the people who would benefit from it the most? If you are aware of a filter bubble, you can easily seek out alternative information...
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From that post: "Our goal is to show people the content they will find most meaningful, and people want accurate news." People might say they want accurate news, but what many really want is news that supports their views, i.e. co
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A constant litany of complaints about unfair and rigged main stream media by the president elect (his latest tweets about the NYT being an example) has convinced a significant portion of the public that the main stream media cannot be trust
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I hope you're not considering Project Veritas a high-quality source. Mr. O'Keefe has a track record of selectively and deceptively editing his video recordings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O%27Keefe I
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The borrower's (Trump's) success is not necessarily aligned with the nation's success. This is exactly why it represents a potential conflict of interests. E.g. Trump can halve DB's fine in return for future loans. Win-w
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I might be underestimating the intelligence of people, but I don't think so. Here are some sobering statistics: - 54% of the GOP electorate think President Obama is a Muslim [1] - 29% of the GOP electorate grant that President Ob
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There is one objective metric on which she definitely was worse: telling lies. And by worse I mean, he told many more of them.
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Yes, there are biases in e.g. the NYT and Washington Post. However, in terms of objectivity, they are miles ahead of the "unfiltered news" on social media. The written press try to check their sources, and hedge their statements i
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He also doesn't seem to have a real plan to disentangle himself from his business interests as a president. He said he will let his kids run the Trump foundation, but that's still a huge conflict of interest. The traditional way t
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Since he never released his taxes we have no idea about his financial situation. We have no clear idea who he owns what to. After a string of business debacles his US financing sources all but dried up. He definitely owes money to Deutsche
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The people that would most benefit from that plugin wouldn't be the ones to use it. If you are aware of your media bubble, you probably have the cognitive tools to do something about it. If it isn't solved at the root, i.e. at the
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It might have looked like a total landslide to you, but it wasn't. He won the electoral college, she won the popular vote. The polls had it as a close election and they were off by a couple of percent.
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In running his businesses, he also delegated "actual wealth creation" to others. E.g. the waiter serving drinks is the one creating wealth as much or more so than the owner of the business...
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Trump has created wealth, but he also destroyed wealth in his multiple bankruptcies and the contractors he stiffed. One could argue that casinos (even if they are profitable) are a net destructor of wealth. It is very hard to get a clear pi

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